What I will do on this tread is to update the guests as frequent as possible on sightings from the Wilderness camps as well as from the game drives/walks, 4x4 trail.

It is difficult to get updates from the outside camps, but it will give our visitors an idea of what to see on what activities and what is going on at what camps, so please bare with me until such a time I get these reports streamlined.

GROOTKOLK:This last week the sightings was good at the camp, a group of 6 lions are hanging around the camp (and stealing the camps kettles), there is also a male leopard and a female with a cub seen. I have also been informed of a Cheetah with three cubs which visit the waterhole on a frequent basis.

BITTERPAN:

There is a huge male leopard that comes and drinks water at the water point next to the attendants accommodation, so be on the lookout for that.

@Jan, thanks for the pictures of the lions. The two lions you have seen with collars on are two which have broken out of the park whereby we received a call from a farmer to advise us that we should come and get them back into the park or he will shoot them since he is a cattle and sheep farmer.

Before the collars were on we would go out to the farm in search of the lions hoping to find them before they would kill livestock. It was decided to start collar the lions breaking out of the park to stop them from being shot. On a daily basis the respective section ranger will monitor the lions whereabouts due to the GPS collars of the lions and if it seems that the lions would head towards the fence we could be one ahead and chase them back before there are any fatalities.

As Anna-Marie mentioned the lions do have brand markings on the back sides as we do keep an I.D. record of all lions breaking out to make it easier to recognise them and keep an close eye on them.

The two lions in discussion have behaved very good and haven’t decided to go back out of the park, if they keep up the good behaviour it would be discussed to takeoff the collars but only if we are sure they don’t attend to break out again.

Thank for the info Jan appreciated.Presume they are still Nomads looking for a territory. They were very nervous because they stop every 500 meters and look back over their shoulders?Were they released far from where they originally break out to ensure they don’t go back?

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